QuacksO's definitions

Excaliber

A famous side-arm carried by great leaders, and which can only be removed from its holster by those worthy of its ownership.

In "The Outlaw", Pat Garrett tries to trick Billy the Kid into giving him his famous Excalibers, but ends up with just a pair of useless revolvers from which he himself had removed the firing-pins.

by QuacksO March 4, 2019

snituation

A dilemma whereby someone has his nose outta joint and therefore doesn't wanna cooperate with whatever endeavor is presently being carried out.

I always make sure to thoroughly interview each and every one of da volunteers who are being considered for a task or expedition, to make sure dat none of them have any personal or political views dat might create a snituation during said undertaking.

by QuacksO July 13, 2023

hynesight

What Lassie's Cockney caretaker should have had more of, so as not to get "sacked" by da Duke for being such an "utter nincompoop".

In hynesight, da Duke of Rudling should never have hired said "utter nincompoop" in da first place, given his inherent lack of learning from his past mistakes.

by QuacksO June 15, 2024

patential

How virtuous/valuable an invention is with regards to whether you could/should officially file it so dat others cannot produce "copycat" devices.

Da term "patential" could also refer to how appealing/adorable a particular animal or fellow human would likely be to da average person, and thus how motivated da typical citizenry would be to administer gentle hand-lovies to said individual.

by QuacksO July 12, 2025

lossuit

An assets-enrichment-seeking court case brought by someone claiming to have suffered a financial setback.

If you get gypped by someone for a lot of money, it usually will be because said shyster had no funds of his own to begin with, so there would probably be little use in filing a lossuit over it --- "you can't get blood out of a stone", so it would likely be just a waste of time and court-costs.

by QuacksO November 15, 2019

kewl kukumberz

A decidedly step up da coolness-ladder from merely "cool beans".

Dude #1: Tiffany cuddled naked in bed wif me and let me knead her butt-cheeks and play wif her boobs for half an hour in exchange for my changing her tire.
Dude #2: Wooooo-hooooooooo --- kewl kukumberz! Please let me know if she needs any help wif her computer, heh heh... hubba, hubba!
Dude #1: Will do, Buddy --- we cool dudes need to stick together, eh???

by QuacksO June 27, 2018

no answer is good answer

A natural "take-off" of the classic "no news" proverb, this saying refers to when you receive no response to a potentially-controversial or "explosive" message that you had trepidatiously sent to an individual or business/government establishment sometime earlier; the idea here is that if your missive's recipient actually was able to "swallow" or "digest" your message's content without "going ballistic" and hot-headedly sending either a seethingly-angry response or the cops your way, then this indicates that the ultra-careful/tactful word-choices that you'd employed when originally composing your message must have paid off --- the recipient's very lack of any response is actually a response in itself, in that he is indicating to you that your message did not excessively upset him.

In today's heatedly-temperish and highly-emotionally-charged business/social world, merely not stressing out someone with a somewhat-unusual/unorthodox statement/request is a major and "worthy" achievement that puts you "ahead of the curve" just by itself, and so you should count your lucky stars and give yourself a pat on the back for good English-communication skills if you actually receive a merely "neutral" reaction when sending someone a potentially-upsetting message --- no answer is good answer, I always say.

by QuacksO February 12, 2019